Bee Alert

By SimplyFun
Price $30.00
Age 5 +

Bee Alert has components that are equal parts charming and brilliant. For example, the six colored bees whose positions players try to recall throughout the game, their weighted bottoms causing them to rock, roll, and weave on the table. They've got personality. In fact, the entire game is bristling with it. That's part of what sets it a big cut above other games. At the outset, those six bees are placed in a circle and covered with equally charming Beehives. The goal is to collect the most Beehives. Players take turns drawing from a deck. If you draw a bee card, lift the hive you think that color bee is under. If you're right, pull the Beehive, bee intact, in front of you. It's yours, for now, but that bee is still in play. If a subsequent player draws that same color, they must recall not only that you're the player who has it, but if you have multiple hives in front of you, which of them exactly it is. There are two other types of cards in the deck. Drawing a Beehive card entitles you to take any hive from the table's center, or if none are left, from another player. Drawing a Beary (the bear) card requires you to put one back. It's fairly easy to track the bees at the outset, but things get very interesting very fast as the bees start moving around. Concentration will boost your chances of winning, but you may not even care. It's just that much fun.